Kim Davis files for re-election as Rowan Co. Clerk

Embattled Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will seek another term in the position which brought her national headlines in 2015.

The clerk, who will run as a Republican, grew to notoriety after denying marriage licenses in 2015 following an order from the U.S. Supreme Court to allow same-sex marriages. Davis filed paperwork last week to seek another term in office.

Four Democratic opponents: James Jessee, Nashia Fife, Elwood Caudill and David Ermold — who Davis denied a marriage license to in 2015 — are all seeking to challenge the outspoken clerk.

In 2017, Kentucky was ordered to pay more than $224,000 in legal fees and court costs owed to same-sex couples who Davis in 2015 over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples.

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